18 February 2025 — 12:00 noon — GAR 4.100
Diana Montaño (Washington University in St. Louis)
“The White Boys’ Burden: Revolutionary Mexico in the American Imagination”
As part of a larger book project on Mexico’s Necaxa hydroelectric plant, Diana Montaño examines a 1914 American adventure novel, Jack Straw in Mexico, and its account of an imagined attack by Zapatista rebels on the hydroelectric plant.
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Diana Montaño is an associate professor in the History Department at Washington University in St. Louis and is the author of Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City (University of Texas Press, 2023).
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This works-in-progress workshop is co-sponsored by HSTEM and the Latin American History workshops. Please RSVP to santiago.munoz@austin.utexas.edu or jfstring@utexas.edu to receive the pre-circulated paper that will be discussed at the workshop.